Installed Debian, now can't boot Solaris. Oops...

hacker supreme · 07-03-2007, 10:33 AM

I installed Solaris on the primary partition of my hard disc. (hd0,0).
And it works nicely.
Then I installed Debian Etch to the secondary partition (hd0,1).
and GRUB was installed to MBR.

I edited /boot/grub/menu/lst so that now it is as follows:

Code:

title           Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18-4-686
root            (hd0,1)
kernel          /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-4-686 root=/dev/hda2 ro
initrd          /boot/initrd.img-2.6.18-4-686
savedefault

title           Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18-4-686 (single-user mode)
root            (hd0,1)
kernel          /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-4-686 root=/dev/hda2 ro single
initrd          /boot/initrd.img-2.6.18-4-686
savedefault

### END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST
title           Solaris 10. i386
root            (hd0,0)
chainloader     +1
savedefault

Only thing is, GRUB can't read the partition to get to the Solaris GRUB menu.

EDIT:
The error message is as follows:

Code:

filesystem type unknown.
partition type 0x83

bigrigdriver · 07-03-2007, 01:17 PM

Try changing your Solaris entry in /boot/grub/menu.lst to something like this:

title Solaris
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1

I found that suggestion after a few seconds google search.

hacker supreme · 07-03-2007, 02:28 PM

ah, ok thanks.
I'll try that.

(Funny, google seems to give different results, depending on who and where you are...)

hacker supreme · 07-04-2007, 12:37 PM

Now it just shows 'Loading GRUB Stage 2' very briefly, then clears screen and goes to GRUB command prompt.